By Craig Rucker ~ Repeating the annual United Nations ritual yet again, COP30 will run from Nov. 10 to Nov. 21 in Belem, on the edge of Brazil’s northwestern Amazon rainforest. The city will host some 70,000 scientists, activists, journalists, politicians, and observers (including CFACT), who will party, participate in endless meetings, and plot ways […]| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The Trump administration has thrown its full weight against a proposed net-zero shipping emissions plan about to be approved by the member countries of the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO). Three Cabinet secretaries have issued a warning to other countries not to approve the so-called Net Zero Framework (NZF), which is generally considered […]| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The world’s largest offshore wind developer, backed by the government of Denmark, is on a deliberate collision course with the Trump Administration. The battleground is Sunrise Wind, a 924 megawatt (MW) offshore wind project located roughly 30 miles east of Long Island’s Montauk Point. Orsted just raised almost $10 billion, two-thirds of which […]| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ President Trump was not a happy camper when he stepped off a faulty escalator on his way to address the United Nations General Assembly recently. By the time he had finished sp…| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ The sun will soon be setting on the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011, the gargantuan project was hailed by President Obama’s first energy secretary, Ernest Moniz, as “an example of how America is becoming a world leader in […]| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ An alert Massachusetts watchdog group has blown the whistle on the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for issuing potentially catastrophic guidance for building grid scale battery facilities. They are specifying a standard which is only meant for small batteries making some rules deadly wrong at grid scale. Turns out this fallacy is widespread […]| PA Pundits International
By Kevin Mooney ~ For a good laugh, turn to page 42 of the report President Donald Trump’s Energy Department released in July. On this page, the huge gulf between climate modeling and observed warming comes into sharp focus. The report includes a chart of all 36 climate models, as well as the warming that […]| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ Unnerved by the Trump administration’s systematic rollback of regulations curtailing greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles, power plants, and household appliances, two enterprising academics have hit on a novel idea to save the planet from manmade climate change: deliberately infect people with a tick-borne, potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat.Climate activists and […]| PA Pundits International
By William Rampe ~ After four years of the Biden administration doing everything in its power to keep our natural resources in the ground, President Trump and Congressional Republicans have made a concerted effort to get the most out of our federal lands and waters.The One Big Beautiful Bill Act marked an important step in […]| PA Pundits International
By Paul Driessen ~ On the evening of September 30, 1882, Henry Rogers turned a switch, and the Hearthstone Historic House living room in Appleton, Wisconsin (my mother’s hometown) was bathed in a soft amber glow. Hearthstone became the first home in the world lit by electricity.Today, few can imagine our lives without plentiful, reliable, […]| PA Pundits International
By Collister Johnson ~ There has been a flurry of activity surrounding the Revolution Wind project off of Rhode Island over the past month. On August 22, 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued a stop work order to Ørsted, the project developer, citing “concerns over permitting and national security issues.” Ørsted responded […]| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ As the United States abandons the false promise of green energy at a pace few thought likely only a short time ago, a slew of lawsuits against fossil fuel producers filed i…| PA Pundits International
By Paul Driessen ~ Although the U.S. Supreme Court frequently overrules it, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering California, eight other western states and two U.S. territories) deserves applause for its recent Engilis v. Monsanto decision. The court affirmed a district court’s exclusion of “expert testimony” claiming a plaintiff’s exposure to the glyphosate-based herbicide […]| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong. Their President just approved a report the conclusion of which is scientifical…| PA Pundits International
By Larry Bell ~ Massive AI Center Requirements Could Bring a Harsh Reality to Green Energy Platitudes and Hallucinations Don’t place your bets on a green energy cartel fighting climate change with…| PA Pundits International
By Steve Goreham ~ European nations announced plans to pursue artificial intelligence. National leaders announced AI spending goals totaling hundreds of billions of euros in efforts to catch up to …| PA Pundits International
By Ronald Stein ~ Sub-Saharan Africa faces a dire electricity crisis. Over 600 million people—more than 40% of the continent’s population—lack access to electricity, a figure projected to rise to 6…| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ As America wakes up from the dystopian dream that everything we need will always be readily available at affordable prices, even official Washington has recognized that we have…| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying solar,” said President Trump in an Aug. 20 post on Truth Social. “The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” Trump’s rema…| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC, rhymes with jerk) has just released its 2025 Summer Reliability Assessment (SRA). NERC is a quasi-federal agency …| PA Pundits International
By Peter Murphy ~ The Trump administration, specifically U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, last month rescinded the federal government’s approval during the Biden administration of New York…| PA Pundits International
By Kevin Mooney ~ Whales migrating up and down the East Coast are getting at least a temporary reprieve from offshore wind. So are property owners, homeowners, business owners, tourists, and anyone…| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ A little over two years ago, representatives of President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated a commitment to a “strategic clean energy partnership,” s…| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ When New York Governor Kathy Hochul, whose state has banned natural gas pipelines because “climate change,” goes all in for nuclear energy, you know the revolution is under way…| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ China is the only country in the world that can seriously challenge America’s longstanding status as the globe’s top dog. And a rejuvenated United States is the only thing …| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The President says he would like to stop new wind power development from wrecking America’s electric power grid. There is a simple and sensible way to do this that stops so…| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ Is everything bigger in Texas?Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has surpassed even the renowned Massachusetts Instit…| PA Pundits International
By Steve Goreham ~ President Trump has long been a supporter of traditional energy. During his campaign, he spoke negatively about electric vehicles, wind, and other renewable energy sources. But i…| PA Pundits International
By Paul Driessen ~ President Trump is determined to make America not just energy self-sufficient, but energy dominant. The USA already produces more oil and gas than any other nation, and he intend…| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Bringing offshore wind under control will be a complex process under administrative law, which few people know much about. As a result there is likely to be a lot of confus…| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ In a recent article in The Engineer, Jim Pickles, Tokamak Energy’s chief of material, predicted that artificial intelligence will soon enable the creation of a new materials da…| PA Pundits International
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ In Cop 29’s “Finance agreement” diplomacy is truly the art of agreeing to nothing. There is no agreement of substance here because there is no substance to this agreement. …| PA Pundits International
From the team at CFACT ~ By Jonathan Lesser ~ According to a recent article published in The Conversation, installing millions of storage batteries distributed through the grid — in homes, business…| PA Pundits International
By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ As if the election of Donald Trump, who has called human-caused climate change a hoax, weren’t enough to darken the days of climate activists and subsidy-dependent green en…| PA Pundits International
By Craig Rucker ~ There’s nothing new under the sun. Snow falls, flowers bloom, and then Fall comes with roughly 50,000 delegates, activists and lobbyists flying out to a UN Climate Summit in some …| PA Pundits International
By Craig Rucker ~ The sums of money being demanded at the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan are staggering.The UN estimates that the world currently spend $3 trillion per year on climate and want…| PA Pundits International
By Peter Murphy ~ Upon arriving in Azerbaijan two weekends ago to attend the United Nations’ COP29 Climate Summit with my colleagues at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), I had no i…| PA Pundits International
By Ronald Stein ~ Shockingly, environmentalists, energy policymakers, parents, teachers, students, and those in the media have no clue or understanding about the basis of the products in our daily …| PA Pundits International
By Duggan Flanakin ~ Back in April the Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States) agreed on a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plan…| PA Pundits International
